Twitter Makes Less Than $160K Per Employee

Twitter this afternoon released its S-1 IPO filing into the public domain, revealing the previously closely-guarded secrets of its business for the first time. While the numbers help us assess Twitter’s strengths and weaknesses as a company, they’re also ripe for fun comparisons.

Twitter’s forthcoming IPO will be the biggest since Facebook and — fair or not — puts Twitter in tech’s most elite club. Going forward, the company will play up its subtle transformation into a powerful advertising machine, so it’s only fair to see how they stack up against tech’s biggest public companies of the past few years. Based on figures from the S-1, we calculated Twitter’s revenue per employee to see how the fledgling company compares with its peers. As it stands, they’ve got a long way to go.